The contributions collected in this volume sprung from the conference “Images of Europe
in Transition”, which took place in Kiev from 25 to 26 November 2016. The conference
was organised by the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
and the Ukrainian Association of Teachers of History, Civic Education and Social
Studies, Nova Doba. It addressed images of Europe with geographical focus, concentrating
on Eastern Europe: specifically Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia
and Azerbaijan, but also Russia. In addition, temporal parameters were specified:
the investigations were to treat transformations in the period since 1991, when a
number of these states first gained sovereignty. The sources employed for these empirical
enquiries were school textbooks.